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* Knowledge users of the world, unite!
* It is stupid to vote on facts.
* Anyone can think.
* Tout le monde peut penser.
* Politiikassa oppiminen on tärkeämpää kuin äänestäminen.
* In policy, it is more important to learn than to vote.
* One stupid can talk more than ten wise men can write to him. (Rationale why it is a good idea to have wiki-MEPs in the Parliament.)
* Policy-making is too serious a business to be left to politicians alone.
* Policy-making is too serious a business to be left to politicians alone.
* Opasnet is for finding out the truth and utilising that in making good decision.
* Opasnet is for finding out the truth and utilising that in making good decision.

Revision as of 06:19, 17 June 2010



Opasnet slogans are short descriptions of some important properties or purposes of Opasnet and open assessment.

Slogans for Opasnet

  • Tiede on avointa kritiikkiä ja uusien ideoiden esittämistä. Demokratia on avointa kritiikkiä ja uusien ideoiden esittämistä.
    ⇒ Tiede = demokratia.
    ⇒ Jos tuntuu siltä, että nykyään tiede ≠ demokratia, ainakin toista tehdään väärin.
  • Science is about open criticism and presenting new ideas. Democracy is about open criticism and presenting new ideas.
    ⇒ Science = democracy.
    ⇒ If you feel that nowadays science ≠ democracy, at least the other is done in a wrong way.


  • All you need science is Opasnet ... and love.
  • All you need in Opasnet is science ... and love.
  • What you need in love is not only science and Opasnet. Thus, love is the most difficult thing of the three.


  • Knowledge users of the world, unite!
  • It is stupid to vote on facts.
  • Anyone can think.
  • Tout le monde peut penser.
  • Politiikassa oppiminen on tärkeämpää kuin äänestäminen.
  • In policy, it is more important to learn than to vote.
  • One stupid can talk more than ten wise men can write to him. (Rationale why it is a good idea to have wiki-MEPs in the Parliament.)
  • Policy-making is too serious a business to be left to politicians alone.
  • Opasnet is for finding out the truth and utilising that in making good decision.
  • Anyone can make science.
  • Anyone can create policies.
  • Anyone can solve common problems.
  • Opasnet - The interface between science, policy, and stakeholders.
  • Opasnet - The policy support wiki.
  • Opasnet - The wiki for policy influence.
  • The main strength of Opasnet is not that it miraculously is able to find out the best possible policy solution, but that it is able to unambiguosly rule out some of the worst policy solutions that are being promoted.
  • Opasnet brings falsification to policy.
  • "Share, fight, and enjoy" (Science is about sharing what you know, fight for your hypotheses and against others' hypotheses, and enjoying this process)
  • Opasnet is the world's largest web workspace for making science and policy.
  • Se, joka noudattaa politiikan logiikkaa, voi päästä poliitikoksi. Se, joka noudattaa tieteen logiikkaa, voi päästä valtiomieheksi.
  • Knowledge users of the world, unite!
  • The most powerful force of the human being is adaptability. Therefore, he adapts even when things should be changed instead.


Slogans for Heande (Opasnet project site)

  • Read it here. Use it here. Publish it together. (This means that people are encouraged to read and use information they see in Heande. They are encouraged to collaborate with other researchers using Heande. But always when someone wants to publish anything from Heande, he/she must negotiate with everyone involved in developing that piece of information. You are not allowed to take information and use it elsewhere without an explicit permission from the Heande community.)

Miscellaneous

  • It is not enough to prepare our children for the world; We must also prepare the world for our children. - Luis J. Rodriguez
  • It is possible to imagine a world where everyone gets what rightfully belongs to them based on their own deeds, and where all sins are fairly punished. However, when we observe the real world, we can inevitably see that it is fortunately not such a cruel place.
  • The whole existing culture is given to us for free, without any credit from ourselves. Therefore, whatever we achieve, is almost entirely dependent on what we have received from others. How could we demand credit for that? At least, not based on justice. Therefore, we are obliged to give for free things that we have been given for free. We cannot pay back what we have received; we must pay it forward.