John C. Baez famous quotes

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

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.