Criminal Minds2005

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I read your thesis, didn't I?

Diane Turner:
You turned me down because you couldn't handle the competition.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
No. I turned you down because your testing was flawed.

Diane Turner:
It was not flawed!

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Your sample was biased. You included your parents.

Diane Turner:
The science was sound. You didn't even read the whole thing, did you?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
No, I did. I did. I did read it. And do you know what I thought after I was finished? I thought, whoever wrote this had suffered a tragedy. And I felt sorry for your loss. But you don't get a PhD just because something bad happened to you.

Diane Turner:
No. You just couldn't see. You can't see that I'm a genius!

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Genius? Do you know what genius is?

Diane Turner:
I know that I am one.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Maybe. Maybe you do have that gift. Maybe your theory could have had merit. But we don't know. Because genius isn't just one good idea or one successful experiment, Diane. Genius is work. Thousands of hours of work.