Benchmark 1A
The Nature of Science: The Scientific World View
Grades 6-8, page 7

Some matters cannot be examined usefully in a scientific way. Among them are matters that by their nature cannot be tested objectively and those that are essentially matters of morality. Science can sometimes be used to inform ethical decisions by identifying the likely consequences of particular actions but cannot be used to establish that some action is either moral or immoral.
 

NSES Content Standard E  
Science and Technology: Understanding about science and technology 
Grades K-4, page 138 
People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of answering questions and explaining the natural world. 

NSES Content Standard A  
Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry 
Grades 5-8, page 145 
Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations. Students should develop the ability to refine and refocus broad and ill-defined questions. An important aspect of this ability consists of students' ability to clarify questions and inquiries and direct them toward objects and phenomena that can be described, explained, or predicted by scientific investigations. Students should develop the ability to identify their questions with scientific ideas, concepts, and quantitative relationships that guide investigation. 

NSES Content Standard F  
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology in society 
Grades 5-8, page 169 
Science cannot answer all questions and technology cannot solve all human problems or meet all human needs. Students should understand the difference between scientific and other questions. They should appreciate what science and technology can reasonably contribute to society and what they cannot do. For example, new technologies often will decrease some risks and increase others. 

NSES Content Standard F  
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges 
Grades 9-12, page 199 
Science and technology are essential social enterprises, but alone they can only indicate what can happen, not what should happen. The latter involves human decisions about the use of knowledge.