Why were Keynesian ideas revolutionary?

Keynes was of the opinion that economics cannot be cultivated in the manner of physics. Economics is essentially a moral science and not a natural science, he wrote to Harrod.It employs introspection and judgements of value.It deals with motives, expectations and psychological uncertainties.Yet he did not tell us why in moral science, contrary to what the Scottish moralists had claimed, the method of natural science was not applicable. Harrod did not seem convinced. Keynes virtually. himself to remarking that economists should do it differently. He wrote that to convert a model into a quantitative formula is to destroy its usefulness as an instrument of thought