亨利‧沃頓（Henry Wotton）

科學家和外交官不是一拍即合的人。科學的工作是探索真相，17世紀的外交官亨利‧沃頓（Henry Wotton）卻說了一句名言，把駐外使節定義為「為了國家的利益，派赴海外說謊的誠實人」。Scientists and diplomats are not obvious bedfellows. While science is in the business of establishing truth, Sir Henry Wotton, the 17th century diplomat, famously defined an ambassador as ‘an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’.（摘自New frontiers in science diplomacy）