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据《自然》杂志最近报道,英国著名数学家米歇尔·阿提耶爵士在其于1995年12月结束皇家学会会长四年任期发表告别演说时,号召科学家们“在需要批评的地方对政府的体制政策提出批评”,并宣称“表明思想的独立性实际上是科学家的标志”。 信守自己的忠告,他攻击了二战后英国历届政府对建立独立的核威摄力量的支持。他宣称这不仅是造成英国在这一时期的经济衰退的根源,而且也是引起公众对科学以及科学界的不满的根本原因。他还对科学家目前在国际武器贸易中继续发挥作用表示出忧虑。 在某种程度上阿提耶含蓄地把英国政府对基础科学的缺乏支持比之于斯大林对待人文科学的态度。但显然是想表明他在政治上的不偏不倚态度,他也批评了工党最近发表的一个文件上暗示可能用皇家学会接受公共资金这点来压它接收更多的妇女会员。
According to a recent report from Nature magazine, Sir Michael Attiyah, a famous British mathematician, made a farewell speech at the end of his four-year term as President of the Royal Society in December 1995, calling on scientists to “ Criticized the government's institutional policies, ”and declared that“ it is in fact a mark of the scientist to show that the independence of the mind ”. Keeping his advice, he attacked the support of successive British governments for establishing an independent nuclear deterrence force after World War II. He claimed that this was not only the root cause of the recession in Britain during this period, but also the root cause of public dissatisfaction with science and the scientific community. He also expressed concern over the ongoing scientific role of scientists in the international arms trade. To some extent, Attiy implicitly compared the British government's lack of support for basic science to Stalin's attitude towards the humanities. But apparently wanting to show his political impartiality, he also criticized the Labor party for a document he recently published that hinted at the possibility of using the Royal Society to receive public funds to pressure it to receive more women's members.