E=mc²

E=mc²

1. Any formulation or realization that captures a profound thought in simple terms.
• 2001, Neil Henry, Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family, p. 282: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.
• 2006, Jeff Byles, Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, p. 70:Loizeaux's battle plan remains formidably elegant, the E = MC² of demolition.
• 2010. Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, p. 154:If conditioned arising was the e = mc² of Gotama's vision, the eightfold path was his first move in translating that axiom from an abstract principle into a civilizing force.