John C. Baez Quotes

• It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

  John C. Baez

  Nice, Math, Nasty

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• Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.

  John C. Baez

  Statistics, Firsts, Professors

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• Why speculate when you can calculate?

  John C. Baez

  Statistics

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• ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

  John C. Baez

  Math, Topology, Algebra

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• When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

  John C. Baez

  Years, Inspirational Birthday, Mountain

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