alchemy

That alchemy — the shift from experience to evidence — is what makes statistics both dry and radical.

The alchemy of creativity lets those forces coexist.

"You're taking bits of wood and metal, sheep's wool, felt and if you put them together in exactly the right sort of way, it's like alchemy, you get a beautiful, singing instrument," he says.

At its best, hollandaise is pure alchemy — with nothing more than butter, lemon, egg yolk, salt.

And like water, she sees herself as able to flow, changing form without losing her core alchemy — equally comfortable spitting fire rap verses as delivering sultry R&B riffs.