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Part II vs. Part I here, it seems: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/higher-speculations-...

I feel like he may be romanticizing the past. Wasn't it one of the Copenhagen Interpretation founders who said, "Good ideas succeed after the old generation opposing them die off" ? (Very rough quote, but I can't find it in a search.)

You are probably thinking of:

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck

While it's obviously true in some cases that science 'progresses funeral by funeral', some exceptions are noted here as in plate tectonics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

The anthropic principle, which he discusses and rolls his eyes at.