The world cannot be understood without numbers.
And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.

—HANS ROSLING, FACTFULNESS (2018)

Freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.

—TIMOTHY SNYDER, THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM (2018)