Hi themasterdebator, sorry for taking so long to respond.
I would say humanity is focused on goal setting while science is focused on goal reaching.
I have a little bit of trouble with this, because strictly speaking you could have {the humanities} making decisions on what goals to set completely uninformed by the reality of different options and the ramifications of those decisions.
Take the issue of stem cell research for instance - an issue fraught with emotion for some people, but which has vast potential for good new medical solutions to problems that plague people. Schrubbia made a stupid uniformed decision based on emotion and kowtowing to religious fanatics, limiting research to specific cell lines that came from mostly abnormal\diseased people, completely oblivious to the fact that thousands of brand new healthy stem cell lines are discarded every year by fertility clinics. This in spite of a survey of the owners of those discarded cells where they overwhelmingly supported donating the cells to research.
Humanities would assign things value(generally to people and satisfying a certain need or want of theirs), science would then be the processing of most efficiently maximizing that value.
And if the "value" assigned is based on belief rather than knowledge and evidence, we can end up doing worthless work for nonsensical goals.
What you need is a feedback system, an intermediate between what is (or may be) possible and what is wanted that evaluates the practicality as well as the desirability of the goals.
I used to quip that science was the art of understanding the universe, and that engineering was the art of making practical use of that knowledge. The problem is that it doesn't end there -- if you allow engineers to design everything then you end up with towns in square blocks and buildings produced by rubber stamps. You need artistic input to the designs to make them more organic, and satisfying to the subjective nature of people.
What you end up with is a design spiral with multiple opportunities for input before the final design is agreed on by all factions.
Enjoy.
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