Dr. Rodney McKay: Using power... using power... using power.
Carson Beckett M. D.: ...well if I've learned one thing, Mum, it's that we Earthlings are ver.
Lt. Aiden Ford, USMC: Doc! You can't say that.
Carson Beckett M. D.: What?
Lt. Aiden Ford, USMC: Earthlings. It's compromising security.
Carson Beckett M. D.: She knows I'm from Earth, son! It's not a bloody secret.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm not crazy. I just have another consciousness in my brain.
Maj. John Sheppard: So he just looks crazy.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm sure I do, but only because Dr. Fumbles McStupid over here was in way over his head.
Dr. Rodney McKay: You're referring to the ship you just shot down! One that doesn't stand a hope in hell of ever flying again.
Torrell: The ship that you're gonna fix, yes.
Dr. Rodney McKay: What am I, MacGyver? Fix it with what?
Maj. John Sheppard: There's plenty of time to solve this thing, but you got to stop using your mouth and start using your brain.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I think I chipped a tooth. Did I chip a tooth? Am I bleeding? Because I am at high risk of enterocarditis.
Maj. John Sheppard: "Get as far away from the nuclear explosion as possible." That's good advice, Rodney, thanks.
Colonel Marshall Sumner USMC: Go... to... hell.
Female Wraith: Earth first.
Zaddik: Are you interested in science?
Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm not sure that's what I would call this, but yes.
Maj. John Sheppard: Have you ever tried to clear a stump by hand?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Yes, it's a hobby.
Commander Acastus Kolya: You killed two of my men.
Maj. John Sheppard: I guess we're even.
Commander Acastus Kolya: I don't like 'even'.
Dr. Rodney McKay: All I know is that she's not who she's pretending to be.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: And you know this because...?
Dr. Rodney McKay: What, I'm not allowed to have intuition?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You? No.
Carson Beckett M. D.: How come I never make friends like that?
Dr. Rodney McKay: You need to get out more.
Carson Beckett M. D.: We're in another galaxy. How much more out can you get?
Maj. John Sheppard: This is what I do when I have problems with my laptop, I turn it off and then I... turn it on again.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: I think this is a little bit more complicated than that.
Maj. John Sheppard: I'm just saying that if we're taking a page from the John Sheppard book of computer repair, we're really desperate.
Carson Beckett M. D.: He fainted.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh there's gotta be a better word.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Faint is a proper medical term.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I passed out from... manly hunger.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Did I mention that I know almost everything about almost everything?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, let me see - we've got slow death, quick death, painful death, cold, lonely death.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You think once the initial shock is over, we'll have the old Rodney back?
Carson Beckett M. D.: I'm afraid so.
Dr. Rodney McKay: So... just to confirm, we're all still... definitely not dead.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Maybe we should make a diversion.
Maj. Lorne: Are you volunteering?
Dr. Rodney McKay: I'll shut up.
Answer: Because even all 4 Naquadah generators (one was destroyed) together is only enough to dial Earth for approximately 1.2 seconds (As seen in the episode "Letter from Pegasus"). Further, if Earth had found a ZPM, they would dial Atlantis and let them know. After all, the SGC has no other use for a ZPM than to dial Atlantis.
Grumpy Scot