科学技术是第一生产力

1. • science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 dèngxiǎopíng introducing the Four Modernizations 四个现代化 sìgexiàndàihuà)

Character by character

• 科(kē)branch of study
• 学(xué)science
• 技(jì)skill
• 术(shù)method
• 是(shì)be
• 第(dì)(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 dìliù "sixth")
• 一(yī)one
• 生(shēng)grow
• 产(chǎn)give birth
• 力(lì)force