4 Quotes by John C. Baez

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

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.

Why speculate when you can calculate?

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.”