Top 39 Rosling Hans Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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#3. There's still racism. Western Europe ... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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#4. We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
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#5. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
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#6. I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
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#9. Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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#10. Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
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#12. To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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#13. Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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#14. There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.
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#15. 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.
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#16. The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.
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#17. The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.
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#18. If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.
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#19. Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
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#20. My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
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#21. You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
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#22. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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#23. The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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#24. You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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#25. I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
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#26. Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.
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#27. Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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#28. There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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#29. What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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#30. Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].
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#31. Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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#32. I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.
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#33. I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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#34. Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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#35. 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.
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#36. If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
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#37. Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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