Hans Rosling

“Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”