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Huxley wrote that the focus of Brave New World isn't science itself, but science as it affects people. Just like how Twilight isn't a book about vampires, so to speak, but a book about how vampires affect people. The vision Huxley paints of a high-tech, futuristic society is both horrifying and fascinating. In a world where people are controlled down to their very impulses, emotions, and thoughts, science tends to imprison humanity more than liberate us. Because of this, "science" is somewhat bastardized by those who seek to control; they use what's useful, but limit what's "dangerous."
Science is subservient to human nature in Brave New World; tools like the Violent Passion Surrogate and the Pregnancy Substitute prove that science must cater to the needs of the human body because it cannot overcome them.
Science trumps human nature in Brave New World; tools like the Violent Passion Surrogate and the Pregnancy Substitute prove that science is effectively able to replace all natural functions.