“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
“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
“Why speculate when you can calculate?” -- John C. Baez
#Statistics
“... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.” -- John C. Baez
#Math #Topology #Algebra
“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
