I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.
Science is not inherently good.
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
