Money isn't the most important thing in life but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do...
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.