STS-Summer I

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Answer to question 1

Science and literature deal with abstract thoughts in different ways. Literature is a form of human expression that explores ideas, emotions, and feelings. Science uses observations and experimentation to prove hypotheses. While literature is divided into fiction or non-fiction, there is no clear-cut division like that in science. If you think of science in terms on literature, science is all "non-fiction".

Science and literature feed off of each other. A scientific discovery can inspire a work of literature, and a literary work can make a scientist think of a new hypothesis. An entire literary genre was born out of this symbiotic relationship. In science fiction, literature puts an imaginative spin on scientific ideas and speculates about what science will bring in the future.

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