Well, I have to say that that poem was written by an English professor who's not a scientist, and I'd also like to posit that it does take a certain kind of faith to keep looking and keep doing experiments in hopes of proving the existence of something like this. I don't think it was intended to belittle the science, just to illustrate the wonder of a lay person at the perseverance of scientists.

Also, I think he had a certain number of vocabulary words to slip into this poem.