One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it's just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it's just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me." in the context of "Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 348" to mean that wisdom is timeless.