Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm not sure I can fix this.
Dr. Peter Grodin: You can fix anything.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Who told you that?
Dr. Peter Grodin: You did. On several occasions.
Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm sorry. It's just... I react to certain doom in a certain way. It's a bad habit.
Eldon: The technology on this ship is far more advanced than the Olesians'.
Dr. Rodney McKay: How ironic, then, to have been shot down by the cast of "Braveheart."
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Carson?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: How are you doing?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Oh, just peachy, thanks. You?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: I'm sorry to put you in this position, but you're the only one besides Colonel Sheppard and General O'Neill who've actually fired a drone from that chair.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Ironically, they're the two people I nearly killed when I did that.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, thank God! You were the only... I thought I was gonna.
Teyla Emmagan: I thought you were very brave.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Really?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You were right.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Lovely... About what?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Your theory of the Wraith evolving after the Ancients arrived in the Pegasus Galaxy.
Dr. Rodney McKay: You've got to be kidding me.
Dr. Zelenka: Pay up.
Maj. John Sheppard: You know, Rodney, you were great back there. Wanna take the stick?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Really?
Maj. John Sheppard: No.
Commander Acastus Kolya: My name is Commander Kolya.
Maj. John Sheppard: "Kolya", that's a difficult name to pronounce. Is that a first name or a last name?
Maj. John Sheppard: Well, leave it to convicts to know the best way to tie people up.
Marin: The island is a penal colony. The prisoners usually don't cause much trouble, as long as you don't try to land there.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, you could put up a sign.
Maj. John Sheppard: Hi, folks. I hope I didn't crash-land on anybody.
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.
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