Roman Ingarden, while analyzing the literary work of art from a phenomenological point of view, excluded the scientific work from his study (The Literary Work of Art, 1973, part 3, ch. 12, §60); he then provided a clear description of the cognition of such texts (The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, ch. 3). However, contemporary scientific discourse has become more and more aesthetically relevant (as “hard” sciences have developed to be more abstract, thus requiring a stronger imaginative effort from readers) and science concepts often require a literary style to be presented (e.g. those in qm physics). I will try to actualize Ingarden’s view, constructing a new phenomenology for the scientific discourse and showing a literary, quasi-judgmental, element in the scientific work itself, the only difference from the literary work of art being its functional role.