Quotes by James Tobin

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.