Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John C. Baez

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American physicist John C. Baez.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
John C. Baez

John Carlos Baez is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory.

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.
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."
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. — © 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?
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