[tcmart14]

I do think it is getting harder, but that is not necessarily bad at all. One big bottleneck in science is the technology to do experiments. A lot of the discoveries that required lower tech are for the most part over, now we need some serious technology to make discoveries. Hubble has its limits, so we need the James Webb Telescope. Einstein predicted gravitational waves, but it took almost 100 years to develop the technology of LIGO and get it up and running to run the experiments. Also, the technology needed is also insanely more expensive. Newton needed time, pen, paper to writes hit laws of motion. Now we need satellites out at the L2 point that can be put in place remotely since it may be awhile before people can swing by and make repairs or troubleshoot physically.

Maybe just spit balling. Maybe it isn't that science has gotten harder, but science needs more engineering support than what it currently has to develop the technologies to allow more a more rapid discovery.