>> In other words, he and most of his contemporaries were convinced that science was pretty much done. This was of course before Einstein’s theories of relativity, quantum mechanics and today’s fruitless search for dark matter.

>> Science wasn’t done then and it’s not done today.

Ah, the good ol' "someone nearly 150 years ago made an incorrect assertion, which means that anybody that ever makes a similar assertion ever again is automatically wrong" argument.