It has a common quality with religion, then, in that it is concerned with questions about our own identity. In the seventeenth century, scientists, especially physicists, tried to create what they thought would be an entirely objective, neutral version of the truth. And they honestly believed that they had discovered, in mathematically based science, a form of truth totally independent of human culture. I think their belief was sincere, but what contemporary histories and philosophies of science has shown us is that even when you use the tools of mathematics, there is no such thing as neutal science. You always have to a metaphor of what you do.
Science always proceeds by being informed by cultural metaphors.
It can no more remove itself from culture than any of us can.