Am reading one of those OUP “Very Short Introduction” books. This one is about the philosopher Rousseau. Apparently (p.25),

…all our sciences, Rousseau suggests, have been formed out of idleness, each discipline stemming from the vices to which indolence gives rise – astronomy from superstition, for instance, geometry from avarice, and physics from excessive curiosity.

He posited all this in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750). I’m aware that logic doesn’t seem to be one of Rousseau’s strong points, but how can “excessive curiosity” stem from indolence? Indolence is laziness, and surely someone with excessive curiosity is hardly going to be lying around being indolent.