Luis Federico Quotes

#1. I didn't need one so pissed at his ex-wife he'd make me fall in love with him before apologizing for leading me on. He wanted to hurt women, and nothing froze my creative juices like heartache.

C.D. Reiss

#2. Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. 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

#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. As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

John Dryden

#6. Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

E.F. Schumacher

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

Luis Federico Leloir

#8. 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

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

Luis Federico Leloir

#10. Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.

Martina Hingis

#11. Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Mike Wallace

#13. Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

George Will

#14. 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

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

Luis Federico Leloir

#16. I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey