The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.Hans Rosling
Every group of people I ask thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is.Hans Rosling
You can’t understand the world without numbers, and you understand it even better with good explanations.Hans Rosling
I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category.Hans Rosling
The gap instinct makes us imagine division where there is just a smooth range; difference where there is convergence.Hans Rosling
The idea that the world is divided in two is extremely dangerous. Most things are interconnected.Hans Rosling
Factfulness is recognizing that many things (bad and good) can be true at the same time.Hans Rosling
Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.Hans Rosling
The problem is that we are often not skeptical enough about the numbers that dictate our worldview.Hans Rosling
The views of the group that disagreed with me had been shaping my ideas just as much as, if not more than, the views of the group that agreed with me.Hans Rosling