Does it matter? All that matters is that he dislikes the class. Plain and simple. This is a common attitude amongst children, hell, the reasons he has given clearly shows that because of the class he is taking, he finds the subject science boring.
Face it, people use math everyday, it doesn't mean they enjoy math as a subject, and will often say "I hate math" when they get too much math homework. Kids find school boring. Why this is a suprise is beyond me.
So no, it certainly isn't me whose been bought down, especially since I wasn't only talking about you.
Saying "science bought together the greatest minds to create what we love today", doesn't make it sound any more appealing. This is just an attitude that he'll get over. Even adults say how much they hate science class, and how they found it boring. Science is just finding out how things work, and some people don't care about the details.