吴其是鸦片战争前以“治国平天下”为己任的仁人志士之一。身为封疆大吏的吴其,能针砭时弊,敢于提出改革的主张并勇于实践;身为科学家的他,在科学研究中,提倡学以致用、实事求是和勇于创新并在科学研究中能借古讽今、借物言志,使他的“经世致用”思想得到了实践和发展。 Before the Opium War, Wu Qi was one of the most benevolent lofty ideals of “governing the country and leveling the world.” As a scientist, Wu Qi, who is a big leader of the frontier government, is able to address the current problems and dare to come up with the idea of ​​reform and practice it. As a scientist, he advocates learning, seeking truth from facts and innovation in scientific research, Satire now, by materialism, so that his “practical” principle has been the practice and development.