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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.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

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.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

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.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.