诺奖得主J. J. Thomson有关科研的看法，“直接资助科研不是最好的办法，可能会使方向跑偏。而间接资助，同时给科研人员充足的空闲，是最好的办法” > The position is this: You want this kind of research, but, if you pay a man to do it, it will drive him to research of a different kind. The only thing to do is to pay him for doing something else and give him enough leisure to do research for the love of it.