PSA: Lord Kelvin never said anything like "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." That is a myth. Michelson did said something like this in 1894.
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The quote is misattributed to Lord Kelvin, the most prominent physicist of the generation before Einstein, to make its import seem more dramatic.
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Even more ironic coming from Michelson if he's the Michelson of Michelson-Morley the famous experiment that led to relativity theory.
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Albert A. Michelson, the same. The irony increases when you realize that the Michelson-Morley experiment was done in 1887, seven years *before* the statement. Clearly, Michelson did not realize that his experiment implied anything like relativity.
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Michelson was a consummate experimentalist, not much of a theorist.
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