AN OPEN MANIFESTO IN THE TRUE SPIRIT OF NIELS BOHR

Should it not be a common, human endeavor to perfect all of our scientific knowledge?

Every unique and knowledgeable person who can contribute improvements to a topic should have the opportunity to leave their mark on the material we offer our pupils and students.

If the educational materials in our schools and universities are continuously adjusted, improved, and updated, it will optimize learning for everyone.

WE SEEK THE DEEP TRUTH

That such material should furthermore serve as the exact same, flawless reference work for serious journalists, non-fiction authors, and all hobby enthusiasts is obvious.

We must keep things open for one another:

  • We must ensure that everyone has equal access to the knowledge that is applicable at any given time.
  • We must ensure consensus on whether the earth is round or flat.
  • We must ensure equal access to the knowledge that is still unresolved – for we do not actually know if God plays dice, or exactly how the Universe and life originated.

We listen to one another and learn from one another at CERN and at what we today know as the Niels Bohr Institute – or what Bohr in his time would have called the Copenhagen University Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Why should the youth then not also be ensured access to the most optimal description of the scientific understanding that researchers – or as Bohr at the time would have phrased it: scientists – possess right now?

A GOOD HISTORICAL EXAMPLE

“Imagine if such a perfected reference work within biological topics had existed when “On the Origin of Species” was published.
Then today, we would not have experienced so many writers mistakenly using the term “the strong survivor” for Darwin’s ”survival of the fittest”.
Had the reference work already existed, everyone would know that those unknowledgeable writers had merely applied a mistranslated source instead of the most suitable and adapted source.”

And exactly those kinds of errors and superficial truths are what we completely intend to avoid with a Fonder®Science Open Science CERN-inspired glossary!