Curb Science?

Science, that gives man hope to live without lies
Or blast himself off the earth:--curb science
Until morality catches up? -But look: morality
At present running rapidly retrograde,
You'd have to turn science too, back to the witch-doctors
And myth-drunkards. Besides that morality
Is not an end in itself: truth is an end.
To seek the truth is better than good works, better than survival,
Holier than innocence and higher than love.

Robinson Jeffers (from The Double Axe and other poems, 1948)