Often, Science and Literature (or humanities) appear as two opposite view-points: starting from C.P. Snow's work The Two Cultures. The discussion was developped by a lot of brilliant minds.
C.P. Snow, a scientist and also a novelist, in his famous “Rede lecture” said that the big problem for scientists was lack of interest in the whole literature of traditional culture. At the same time, Snow criticized the humanists, who in his opinion couldn’t understand modern science even if they wanted to do it.
Today's position about the problem is, of course, not identical: culture is in some deep sense inseparable from conduct- from that unscientific but ineluctable question: how should I live my life? This is the big question that, in our time, must regulate the relationship between sciences and humanities, innovation and tradition.
Adopting a scientific metaphor, we can consider the human being recalls a personal computer: “there is a connection between our hardware and our software”.
The connection is, of course, more intimate and complex than in a P.C., for our capacity and necessity to analyze our behaviour. Today such action is so complex and difficult that in most cases we aren’t able (completely) to chose the “right” role: we are scared of scientific innovation. Contemporary scenery needs urgent answers a new conception of the actual division between scientific and humanistic subjects.
In conclusion, to find an exit from this complex situation, the two poles (scientific and humanistic) should develop a fertile dialogue, that may create a solid foundation for our future.