Numbers are needed to engineer most anything, but numbers by themselves are mere tools of imagination.
Bogus numbers never built anything useful.
Now unless you want to dismiss the commensurability of the way we think with the way the world as a whole functions, there is hardly a chance that I will ever ever be a virtuoso violinist. Still, give it some time, and lots of it, every single person born could be a virtuous violinists, if only the direction of our evolution should find that advantageous. So far, the development of eyesight has found that chance.