Is Astronomy quantitative ? Is Biology and its diverse branches Quantitative ? Is Geology Quantitative ? Is History quantitative ?

These different sciences are for some part quantitative but for an other part they are observation sciences. And this part is not the less important because it is what links these science to reality.

Mathematics is usefull to order reality and to make some predictions giving us the possibility or the dream to dominate the world.

But observation is the more important.

And luckily we did not wait for quantitative science to invent agriculture , sail boats , metallurgy , ceramics , electricity , steam engine , internal combustion motor , diesel , telephone ..... the quasi totality of the technical world.

I am not against mathematics , far from it. As said above Astronomy without mathematics is just a story , but without the story there is no Astronomy either.