We see science's predictive power, its ability to explain, its ability to fix.
This is especially true when religion has lost its power to explain or define transgression.
Elegance in this context means, as the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes, the "power to explain much while assuming little".
Since 1979, its results have the predictive power to explain 58 percent of voting in the Iowa caucuses.
But some of these musicians, including the violinist Regina Carter, are virtuosos, and they have the power to explain.
Paul Bloom, a cognitive psychologist at Yale, believes that brain imaging has a beguiling appeal beyond its actual power to explain mental and emotional states.
But, on the principle that they expect other people with power to explain themselves, we should encourage or cajole all editors to come out more.
Also, by drawing on a range of views, pluralism offers greater power to explain real-world events and provides the tools to solve real-world complex problems.
The notice issued Wednesday orders Mr. Ashraf, a former minister for water and power, to explain why he should not be charged with contempt — a formality that usually precedes formal charges.
He had stopped in Burton-on-Trent only to re-re-re-announce a new shared home ownership scheme and to talk some big talk about a "zero tolerance of mediocrity", before zipping up to the Northern Powerhouse, which remains largely without power, to explain how a series of flood defences installed in 2012 were not in fact designed to defend against flood.
