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“I'd only worked out a few of them myself and was never good at computer calculations. But in light of Candela's achievement and the output of his computer, the notion of a large number of manifolds was no longer abstract or merely an estimate made by a partisan mathematician. It was a fact, and if you have any doubts on the subject, you need to look no further than Candela's published database.”
― Shing-Tung Yau, The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

“Away from the top of the throat [of variations of Calabi-Yau conifolds with warped throats], the two geometries look almost identical, and people used to think they could be used interchangeably. Shiu and I showed that the details do matter.”
― Bret Underwood