5 Quotes by Alexey N. Krylov

In engineering, there is no place for adjectives but only for numbers.

There are two groups of observational sciences. One is called exact – astronomy, physics, chemistry, and so on – and there is another: black and white magic, astrology, graphology, chiromancy, and so on. This second group includes meteorology.

My father often expressed the view that foreign language should be taught in childhood in the same way as a puppy is taught to swim. “Take it by the nape, and throw into a pond. If it floats, it would learn to swim. If it drowns, it would never learn.

True engineers must trust the eye more than any formula.

Statistics should consist not only in filling the register the size of a double bed sheet with useless numbers but in reducing these numbers to a quarter of a page and in relating them to one another, making it possible to see what happened and to anticipate what is going to happen.