In everyday life, we don’t consider an event senseless because it cannot be explained quantitatively. Rather, an event seems senseless when we cannot fit it into the stories we tell to make sense of the world. When asked why we are doing something, we usually answer with a personal narrative, rather than a mathematical equation. However, quantitative knowledge is also important. It allows to maintain perspective and to place our own immediate experience in a broader content of what others do and experience. One style of knowledge and explanation is not better than the other; both are valid, and each complements the other. ~ Page 78
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