Can morality be defined by laws and data or is that just science fiction?

However, in The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris proposes an alternative view: that morality may be amenable to the scientific method, in the same way that George Boole and others provided a mathematical basis for the study of logic in the 19th century.

The Moral Landscape conceives of morality as a “science of human well-being” which, subject to definitions and rules, may develop in the future as other sciences have. The landscape metaphor is useful.