Luis Federico Leloir Quotes

#1. I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

Luis Federico Leloir

#2. After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

Luis Federico Leloir

#3. The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.

Luis Federico Leloir

#4. This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.

Luis Federico Leloir

#5. The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Luis Federico Leloir

#6. We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.

Luis Federico Leloir

#7. A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Luis Federico Leloir