No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

p. 2 cited in: John B. Davis (2011) Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist Working paper - Economics As A Moral Science, 1969