"The greatest good fortune of my return to……" — James Tobin
"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
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12 Quotes by James Tobin
James Tobin has 12 quotes on this site.
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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University…
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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of…
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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and…
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From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.
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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging,…
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I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High…
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Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively…
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't…
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for…
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Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support…
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of…
— Martin Ryle
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You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a…
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I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side.…
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I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.
— Hugh Laurie
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