[jgeada]

I think you missed the entire point of the essay. You should actually read it.

Science is incremental, revolutions in science mostly just adjust the edges of our knowledge, at more and more extreme corner cases (extreme high energies, extreme high/low temperatures, etc). No, we absolutely don't know it all, but as always, new knowledge and theories will only affect those edges, and refine the predictions for the nth+1 decimal place.

By and by, the science that directly affects our daily lives has remained stable and most progress has been in the engineering to put all this knowledge to practical and efficient use.

[mistermann]

I like how in English one can make it appear if one is skilfully and logically dismissing an argument without actually even trying to. I don't presume that this was your intent, but the phenomenon is quite interesting and I quite confidently believe dangerous (in that it contributes to some degree to inaccurate models in the minds of those who ingest such text, and those models are what drive action, much of which is harmful...which is easy to see in {choose your outgroup}, but far less easy to see in one's ingroup).