In certain extreme cases in mathematics, the synthesis of morphisms and of transformations is so intimate that one can speak of a veritable fusion. […] Essentially, categories are sets of morphisms organized into operatory systems.
1992, Terrance Brown (translator), Gil Henriques, Chapter 13: Morphisms and Transformations in the Construction of Invariants, Terrance Brown (translator), Jean Piaget, Gil Henriques, Edgar Ascher (editors), Morphisms and Categories: Comparing and Transforming, page 198