don't you just love it when people with "doctoral" degrees meme? this is a really bad paraphrasal of the apocryphal story about hilbert: "There is a much quote

don't you just love it when people with "doctoral" degrees meme? this is a really bad paraphrasal of the apocryphal story about hilbert: "There is a much quoted story about David Hilbert, who one day noticed that a certain student had stopped attending class. When told that the student had decided to drop mathematics to become a poet, Hilbert replied, “Good — he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.” — Robert Osserman (US mathematician, 1926 – 2011)"