Quite off-topic, but it reminded me of an interesting book I read some time ago titled "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times". It is a bit obscure and metaphysical, but it develops the same idea across all aspects of society: economics, society, politics, religion, etc, etc.
Of science it basically proposes that science itself is a product of "quantitative thinking":
> The founding of a science more or less on the notion of repetition brings in its train yet another delusion of a quantitative kind, the delusion that consists in thinking that the accumulation of a large number of facts can be of use by itself as ‘proof' of a theory; nevertheless, even a little reflection will make it evident that facts of the same kind are always indefinite in multitude, so that they can never all be taken into account, quite apart from the consideration that the same facts usually fit several different theories equally well. It will be said that the establishment of a greater number of facts does at least give more ‘probability' to a theory; but to say so is to admit that no certitude can be arrived at in that way, and that therefore the conclusions promulgated have nothing ‘exact' about them;
Anyway, quite an interesting book.