Hans Rosling Quotes
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Rosling, Hans, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Flatiron Books, 2018.
Lincoln was depressed when the Union had over 30,000 casualties in a two-week time.
This idea came from Dutch Philosopher Benedict Spinoza. See his quotation from 1677.
Hans Rosling was a Swedish physician, academic, and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data (and data visualization) to explore development issues. His posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller.