Reflections on Literature and Science

Abstract

There seems to be a consensus around the idea that everything that permeates the scientific discourse receives a sort of approval to be believed and validated. Suddenly the discourse of science became the touchstone of everything that tries to be accepted or considered. This is reminiscent of the very dawn of science in which a profuse skepticism seemed to preclude the possibility of a "new science" and, with it, the authentic search for knowledge and truth. This short work intends to move away from such an idea, proposing that, although for those who search, it is possible to find intricate and even founding relationships between literature and science. What lies behind them are divergent questions about what the human being is and what his function in the world is. It is not necessary to justify from any discourse the noblest quests of the human spirit.