Under the spotlight in Beijing, winners of the 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award spoke not of past glory, but of enduring passion. Nobel Prize Laureate Samuel Chao Chung Ting, 89, declares he's still working – "no retirement at MIT" while David Jonathan Gross marvels at China's ever-changing progress in basic science. Nobelist Steven Chu and Turing Award winner Robert Endre Tarjan both encourage scientific thinking methods, and Fields medalist Shigefumi Mori drew laughter insisting 74 is a prime research age. Their voices united in a powerful testament to science's timeless spirit. CGTN reporter Liu Jiaxin collects their insights.