“Better to be screwed physically than financially.”

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

New York Magazine, The Mix, 2010-02-24 http://books.google.com/books?id=xOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=screw+the+devils+milbury&source=bl&ots=ydhoF36x3S&sig=qMaB_R2w_l0qKHznTEcLBAIR7m8&hl=en&ei=UsaFS56WGonRlAerrs2LDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=screw%20the%20devils%20milbury&f=false,
On Joining the New York Islanders

Source: The Search

as quoted in .
Context: “Which is Better: the Latke or the Hamantash?” is not a valid question, even though this has now been debated for 50 years.
* The question does not exhibit the necessary property of universality.
* It is culturally biased, implies gender specificity, exhibits geographical chauvinism and appeals to special interests.
* It is not value-free.
This question would not pass scrutiny on an SAT test, since it unfairly favors one ethnic and gender group over another: e. g., it favors the NY and Brooklyn establishment over the Midwest Rust Belt, and pits female latke workers against male hamantash bakers. In short, it is Politically Incorrect. Physics does not ask which is better: the proton or neutron, baryon or lepton, helium or neon, the conductor or insulator. These are simply properties of nature. Rather, physics asks: “Why?” or “Which is more important or more fundamental?” or “Who published it first?”

To Michael Arrington, who was trying to imply that receiving a sample Pre for testing pre-disposed him to a favorable review, on Gillmor Gang (6 June 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsV-lgnAjps

Source: threatening to obstruct the Senate if the Republicans used the nuclear option. Quoted in The Washington Post, December 13, 2004, GOP May Target Use of Filibuster http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59877-2004Dec12.html

Source: Night Embrace

Ich vermeinte, man verlange physische Determinationen und nicht abstracte integrationes. Es fängt sich ein verderblicher goût an einzuschleichen, durch welchen die wahren Wissenschaften viel mehr leiden, als sie avancirt werden, und wäre es oft besser für die realem physicam, wenn keine Mathematik auf der Welt wäre.
Letter to Leonhard Euler, 26 January 1750, published in [Correspondance mathématique et physique de quelques célèbres géomètres du XVIIIème siècle, P. H. Fuss, Saint Petersburg, 1843, 650]