Is literature a form of science?

If sciences are various fields of perspectives attempting to come as close as possible to realizing the true nature of their respective subject; and, if much art, from Carver to Dostoevsky, is recognized for those authors to express such a height of naked honesty, do they have similar endeavours?

"literature is the question without the answer" - Barthes

Science is about performing observations and using them to make predictions. Literature is about telling a story. Stories are based on techniques that obscure the truth, such as allusion, metaphor and the unreliable narrator. Good science seeks to be an unambiguous and precise as possible, nobody wants to read a book in which everything is described in such accuate detail. The maidens hair to vaguely compared to a field of wheat, not clearly defined as the color #FFD700 in hex code. Literature are science are two of humanities great pursuits, but that doesn't make them remotely similar.

This is silly. Literature can refer to science, talk about science, question science but it is NOT science. YEZ!!!

Panopticon said:

If sciences are various fields of perspectives attempting to come as close as possible to realizing the true nature of their respective subject; and, if much art, from Carver to Dostoevsky, is recognized for those authors to express such a height of naked honesty, do they have similar endeavours?

"literature is the question without the answer" - Barthes

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Literature can utilize some of the same techniques that science does, as far as a literary hypothesis being, "if I write 'x', readers will think/feel 'y'". But I wouldn't consider literature a science like physics, chemistry, or biology may be.