Science, by definition, makes progresses by trials and mistakes. It is never dogmatic, but through the method of experimental research, it produces the solid building blocks of knowledge with which to build a better future. Each brick of scientific knowledge follows the ethics of transparency to allow other scientists to reproduce scientific research and make new discovery. Science is based on hypothesis (from the Greek, hypo – below - and thesis – position), that is a supposition that preludes scientific reasoning. The hypothesis is therefore the pivot of scientific research, largely determining its progress: we are used to accepting the "provisional" nature of any scientific theory, based on a momentary hypothesis, of which we cannot establish with certainty the veracity and that we know, or should know, is subject to change.

One of the most effective metaphors is attributable to Einstein and Infeld: the scientist studies nature as a curious person who looks at a clock, he can open it and even disassemble it, he can come to hypothesize a mechanism that explains the movement of the hands and the ticking, but he is not able to establish whether his hypothetical model corresponds to reality or not. For this reason, the scientific hypothesis is the basic tool for advancing knowledge and plays a key role in achieving persuasive results in terms of scientific and technological communication.

Science is dedicated to understanding all the observable reality in nature. Since there is only one nature, there can only be a single science. Crucial turning points in science have given cause to great changes that affected the vision of nature but also of our collective consciousness, clarifying our place in the Universe.

Globalization cannot imply the disappearance of biodiversity and science will have nothing to do with cultural intolerance, because the foundation of scientific knowledge does not depend on people's ethnic, political or religious backgrounds. For this reason, it is free from the collective ideological prejudices that often enclose people's minds.

Science achieves results because it creates a huge number of possibilities, new interdisciplinary fields from which to learn and in which to compare the creativity of scholars of different languages ​​and cultures, animated by the same enthusiasm and pleasure of discovery. As Francis Bacon said "Wonder is the seed of knowledge" that allow us to know the unknowable.

The great advantage of science is the fact that it is constantly evolving because by definition it must continuously ask itself questions to be verified and compared, rather than being satisfied only with giving answers even if they were the right ones. It is much more interesting and creative to live with constructive doubt and without certainties, than to stick to partisan or wrong answers.

As we said, each scientific discovery is preparatory to the work of other scientists who, based on the work of their predecessors, will achieve new advances.

Yet we must never forget that science is not a commodity but an enormous value for humanity, because it provides solutions and because it opens great spaces of freedom beyond national interests and beyond borders, the bottlenecks of politics.

Even Monod wrote that "scientists, like intellectuals, must not be on anyone's payroll", just as our "Science for Peace.Eu" Foundation is not.

Finally, scientific research should be ethical and transparent, useful for humanity, built on solid methodological foundations. The international scientific community that evaluates the research and ethics committees are involved, each according to their own level of responsibility, always having as an ethical reference the rule of Hippocrates, still valid for all doctors: "primum non nocere, secundum sedare dolorem" (first do not hurt, then calm the pain).

In our opinion, science can never stop being at the service of our millenary evolution, asking itself questions in a complex cognitive process and with a rigorous method, which aims to obtain verifiable proofs without leaving room for opinions, proceeding by progressive knowledge and above all, advancing through failures and resilience: “nobody can stop science” because scientists are the “blue helmets” at the service of knowledge and global well-being.

For all the reasons explained so far, our Foundation considers the promotion of culture and scientific research to be fundamental; in fact, in the name of global thinking, in order to address the ethical and political problems concerning science and technology, it is necessary that science does not remain a debate between experts but that a greater scientific knowledge spread especially among the youngest generations.

This knowledge allows us to refine the ability to make conscious and sustainable life choices, understanding that the balance of ecosystem, the health, the survival of the planet and its social implications, depend not only on the evolution of research, but especially from the behavior of each of us.

Science makes you free, because it makes you look far and observe reality with a critical spirit, out of the bottlenecks and conditioning of moralistic prejudices; it pushes us to ask ourselves questions, to analyze, to go beyond what is taken for granted.

True scientists make their scientific knowledge available to all so that it can be refuted and corrected, replacing the dogmatic concept of truth with the much more scientific one of likelihood which refers to everything that is true up to the moment in which it can be denied through an experimental verification.

Summarizing the mechanism that leads to research and scientific knowledge, Einstein stated that “the most beautiful and profound emotion we can feel is the sense of mystery; here lies the seed of every art, of every true science. In fact, at the basis of science there is the individual's curiosity towards something unknown, therefore there is the exercise of doubt, which gives rise to a drive to exercise reason".

The true researcher must therefore keep an indomitable spirit of adventure and allow himself an extraordinary curiosity. Just as Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientists ever, teaches us, who with great humility said: "I don't know how the world will judge me but it just seems to me that I am a child playing on the beach, and that I enjoyed so much finding every a stone or a shell more beautiful than usual, while the ocean of truth lay unexplored before me ”.

To conclude, science must strive for peace and global well being, but this requires biological and psychological energy, the food of body and soul, which we must share not only with our intestinal microflora, but also with all other living beings.

The seven continents can save the planet and our DNA. It is easier to achieve unanimity in a G7 (precisely of 7 continents) than in a G20 by placing the future in the hands of young people and women with a less deficient immune system; basing our behavior on the recovery and resilience that lodge in the two ventricles of the heart; abandoning all forms of hatred and, above all, using the method of scientific research, which teaches us not to be afraid of the unknown and of the future.

All this can lead us to meet others and their rich libraries of Babel, making us come out of the Hybris of solipsism to be special and unrepeatable.