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

- Luis Federico Leloir

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

- Luis Federico Leloir

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

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

- Luis Federico Leloir

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