Yuan Longping’s famous sayings include: 1. A grain of grain can save a country, or it can stumble a country. Our jobs must be firmly in our hands as Chinese people. Those of us engaged in agriculture must do our best to ensure national food security.

2. Books are very important, and so are computers. But rice cannot be grown in books, and rice cannot be grown on computers. Rice can only be grown in experimental fields.

3. I always feel dissatisfied. Engage in scientific research and constantly want to reach new heights.

4. Retirement does not exist for me.

5. It would be great if one of 100 experiments succeeds.