The sixth bimonthly Academic Salon jointly held by Fudan Xuebao, Development Research Institute of Fudan University and Fudan University Press carried a panel discussion on convergence and cross-fertilization of science and technology and the humanities. Topics include development of science and technology as a new challenge to the humanities social sciences;interplay and interpenetration of natural sciences on the one hand and the arts and social sciences on the other. Panelists also advanced views that science and technology should be developed;scientific spirit should be carried forward and scientism should be contained. Excerpted are speeches by the panelists.