Best 35 quotes of Hans Rosling on MyQuotes

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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.

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

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.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

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.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

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.

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.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

My husband is my most valuable resource.

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.

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.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.

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.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

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.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

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?

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.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

Det är aldrig för sent att ge upp, så det kan vi lika gärna göra någon annan gång.

Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It's both. It's both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time. That is how we must think about the current state of the world.

I use normal statistics that are compiled by the World Bank and the United Nations. This is not controversial. These facts are not up for discussion. I am right and you are wrong.

My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Hans, we have loaded the laundry. The machine will make the work. And now we can go to the library.' Because this is the magic: you load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines, children's books.

The next generation is like the last runner in a very long relay race. The race to end extreme poverty has been a marathon, with the starter gun fired in 1800. This next generation has the unique opportunity to complete the job: to pick up the baton, cross the line, and raise its hands in triumph. The project must be completed. And we should have a big party when we are done.

Today, Muslim women have on average 3.1 children. Christian women have 2.7. There is no major difference between the birth rates of the great world religions.