Connecting literature and science This work presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities focusing particularly on literature and an empirical non theory based approach thereto. Written from the perspective of a professional chemist it seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them A Brief History of L&S The Science Wars Models of Engagement Encoding an Infinite Message: Richard Powerss The Gold Bug Variations Is That a Coded Message It May Not Be So Simple! Found in Translation Entropy as Times (Double Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppards Arcadia Chirality and Life Making New Life The End of Irony and or the End of Science