International Solidarity of Scientists

The International Solidarity of Scientists promotes progressive humanistic endeavors in three areas: Scientific Research, Education, and Great and Good Works. The web site also mirrors other web sites including All the Light We Can See built by George Stanciu.

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​Research: Science is made by humans, a self-evident fact often forgotten in our technical society. Progress in science comes simply from real objective observation and from logical thought. Just as the Polish ship workers required a union to advocate for worker's rights: intellectual workers, especially in Biotech, are often alienated from their own intelligence by corporate culture including absurd intellectual property agreements. IntSoSci seeks to advance science through cooperation and increased freedom for scientists.​

 

Education: All education is ultimately self education. Progress in the art of educating comes from scientific observation and logical thought. Maria Montessori explains: "The pedagogical method of observation has for its base the liberty of the child; and liberty is activity." What Montessori says about children  applies to all who learn including geniuses such as Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman.​

 

Great and good books contribute to living life well; the International Solidarity of Scientists archives and provides links to great and good books. "It must be understood that, because man is by nature a social animal, needing many things to live which he cannot get for himself if alone, he naturally is a part of a group that furnishes him help to live well," writes Saint Thomas Aquinas in his commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The critical groups include family, friends, teachers, village, religious, and civic groups. But as Helen Keller wrote, second in importance to human friends, "book friends" bring a wideness and historical richness to living life well. Keller also gives the criteria for works of a great poet: "Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. Would that the host of those who make the great works of the poets odious by their analysis, impositions and laborious comments might learn this simple truth! ... But Hugo and Goethe and Schiller and all great poets of all great nations are interpreters of eternal things, and my spirit reverently follows them into the regions where Beauty and Truth and Goodness are one." ​