“The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.” Patent Office Commissioner Henry Ellsworth, 1843 “It’s not so clear that there will be any more revolutions in physics.” Ian Hacking, 2012 Do our readers know of more examples of astonishingly stupid and arrogant assertions along the lines of “We now know it all, or nearly so, and the only job left is to suss out the details”?

It will be helpful to have a standard succinct but thorough description of the cell that incorporates references to as much of its marvelous technology as possible.  Here’s an example from a recent post by KF:  “nanotech, informational polymer based digital code using information system constituting a metabolising, von Neumann self-replicator automaton” The contest is to develop such a description.  Remember, the winner will walk the best line between brevity and comprehensiveness.  Try to keep your entries under 50 words (few than 40 would be even better). The winner will receive two prizes: (1) a copy of The Nature of Nature, and (2) his/her work will be permanently posted as a reference on UD.