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“I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Stats that reshape your worldview
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“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.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: New insights on poverty
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“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 RoslingHans Rosling: Religions and babies
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“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.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Stats that reshape your worldview
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“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?”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when
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“If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
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“Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world’s population.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: The magic washing machine
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“If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: The magic washing machine
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“Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Religions and babies
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“My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: New insights on poverty
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“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.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when
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“There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: The magic washing machine
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“Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when
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“You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.”
— Hans RoslingHans Rosling: Religions and babies
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