Meaning of E=mc² | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A formulation or realization that captures a profound thought in simple terms.
   idiomatic, informal, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: E = mc²: energy equals mass times the speed of light's square.
   uncountable

Examples

“"Beauty isn't about looking young." OK, so it's not E=mc² or even [Isaac] Newton's apple. But coming as it does from a top cosmetics company, it does represent an attitude readjustment that makes Saul's change of heart on the road to Damascus look like a passing fancy.”

“What counted most through the generations, far more than any other factor, regardless of our race, was how we treated those we loved and how well we loved. That seemed the transcendent lesson or moral that my search had revealed. And it held true whether the figure was my mother or Fredda on one side of our family tree, or Rita or Anna Beaumont on the other. Simple as it was, it was my E = mc².”

“What Jacques Derrida is to literature, [Mark] Loizeaux is to [building] demolition: He's the philosopher king of demolition. […] Loizeaux's battle plan remains formidably elegant, the E = MC² of demolition.”

“If conditioned arising was the e = mc² of Gotama [i.e., Siddhartha Gautama]'s vision, the eightfold path was his first move in translating that axiom from an abstract principle into a civilizing force.”

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