The Victorian progress was largely driven by scientific discoveries, some of which were Dutch, thanks to progressive, solid education, established under PM Thorbecke against conservative Christian resistance. Theoretic physicist Hendrik Lorentz won a Nobel Prize for his mathematical formulas, without which even Eninstein's Relativity theory might not have been possible. Paleontologist Eugène Dubois and his findings in colonial Indonesia, 'Java man', which he presumed to be the Darwinian missing link between ape and modern mankind, were ignored by the contemporary establishment and nearly forgotten by posterity.
—KGF Vissers