[norton]

"So they predicted that there are things that we don’t know and offered no clue as to what they were?... That’s a brilliant prediction."

Sounds to me as though they predicted that the things we don't know are just as important as the things we think we do know.
That it is foolish, in fact dangerous, to ignore them.
And that it is disingenuous to ignore them because the prevailing bias has relegated them to 'junk'.

It might not be brilliant, but it certainly is appropriate.

[ndt]

"Sounds to me as though they predicted that the things we don't know are just as important as the things we think we do know."

If scientists didn't already think that they would not be working so hard to discover new things. It's wasn't a prediction, it was a statement of accepted fact.