The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. Hans Rosling Read Quote
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. Hans Rosling Read Quote
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow. Hans Rosling Read Quote
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can’t sleep at night thinking about it. It’s terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift. Hans Rosling Read Quote
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me. Hans Rosling Read Quote
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities. Hans Rosling Read Quote
I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It’s the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods… We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers. Hans Rosling Read Quote
I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. Hans Rosling Read Quote
