astrophysics SCOTT BOLTON the principal investigator for nasa’s juno spacecraft — currently looping around jupiter — on the ongoing renaissance in astrophysics and space observation interview by SAVANNAH NOLAN and OLIVIER ZAHM OLIVIER ZAHM — The cosmos represents a complexity that requires creativity, not just pure science, right? SCOTT BOLTON — That’s right. Science without interpretation and understanding doesn’t really go anywhere. We don’t understand the basics of life, or even the definition of life, and we struggle with the fundamental things that cross the boundaries between science and philosophy or metaphysics. So, if we only look at the narrow regions of science from the perspective of a scientist and mathematician, we cannot fully comprehend or put it in the context that we need to understand how our observations describe nature… To be effective, you have to look at it from a very broad viewpoint, to realize that what you’re seeing…