Luis Federico Leloir Quotes

#1. I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Pena Jr.

#2. 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

#3. What he sounded like. Desperate. But it didn't matter. "I'm serious." His voice was cold. Menacing even. He didn't like it when people made fun of him. "I need to find her. You have a problem with that?

J.C. Reed

#4. 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

#5. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Martha Stewart

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

Luis Federico Leloir

#7. 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

#8. Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Haruki Murakami

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

Luis Federico Leloir

#10. Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

Michael Jackson

#11. 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

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

Luis Federico Leloir