Science is a method. It is very different than Technology.

It is as different as dropping a stone is not physics. One drops a stone and it follows the laws physics predicts, and with physics you can make more accurate predictions of complex systems.

The laws would still be there without physics, but our tools and capability to manipulate them would be greatly diminished.

It is actually a bit intellectually lazy to use literary critical theory To critique things outside literature, because it is obvious it has no explanatory power outside the subjective reading of a book.

Yes, they are different, but they are also deeply connected. Science requires tools, which technology provides. New discoveries and understanding then enable new tech and new tools, which allows for new science, and so on and so forth.