(Edited in accordance with suggestions in comments.) 


I remember once I read a quote that sounded like "graph theory is the scum of topology" (please approximate). I can not find it on the web, and I can not remember who said this. Or did I dream it after a heavy meal? 



Source for derogatory quote about graph theory
*Graph theory is the slum of topology...*


You may have read it in the first paragraph of the very first **opinion** of Prof. [Zeilberger](https://mathoverflow.net/users/5822/doron-zeilberger):


[Topology: The slum of combinatorics OR "Don't show off too much, your specialty will soon be trivialized"](http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion1.html)


He attributes it therein to a certain Whitehead too (but it is not clear from his text to which Whitehead he is referring).


