Science and technology in terms of innovative ideas and technological advances has been reflected by numerous well-known and representative literary works. This was first witnessed at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which marked the most notorious social impact of scientific activity. Here, we show how the debate between science and humanities is unfruitful, because the mutual influence of these two ways of thinking shows that they are equally human and have constantly influenced each other, and even more so today. In this article we discuss countless examples of novels and stories influenced by new scientific ideas, and also some cases where literary creativity has provided words for highly original scientific vocabulary. La prese...