Science in a Sentence

Waking from the nightmare once again, Ming Ran immediately logged onto the forum and put the looming crisis into a post.

Question: If a cataclysm destroyed all scientific knowledge, and each field of study could preserve just one sentence, what could your field contribute to help humanity rebuild civilization?

Elementary school students: (gone dark)

Middle and high school students:

Chinese: Copy each wrong answer ten times.

Math: Answer omitted.

English: OK~ scratch~ class begins.

Physics: By this point, physics has already done all it can.

Chemistry: Oxidation loses, reduction gains; oxygen goes up, hydrogen goes down.

Biology: The fruit fly steels itself.

Geography: The Earth is a circle.

History: Studying history is not the same as rewriting it.

Politics: For analysis questions, take three steps: identify, analyze, summarize.

College students:

History: Learn from the past.

Law: Heaven above, distinguish the loyal from the corrupt.

Teacher training: Be learned enough to teach, upright enough to be a model.

Civil engineering: Cut roads through mountains and build bridges over water.

Accounting: Every debit has a credit, and debits must equal credits.

Psychology: I hear you. Your pain is real.

Translation: Translate Huaguo for the world, and tell Huaguo about the world.

Agronomy: Agriculture is the foundation of the realm; food is the lifeblood of the people.

Journalism and communication: The eyes and ears of the people, the voice of the people.

Ming Ran read through the replies. Some were jokes, some had given up entirely, and others were trying to be romantic. None seemed to mean much, and nobody appeared to take the question seriously, until an anonymous comment appeared.

The secret to immortality lies on the far side of the moon.

Theme: Thinking brings nothing but questions; doing brings all the answers.