Objects Quote by Marcel Proust

“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”

— Marcel Proust

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

— James Cash Penney

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

— Manuel Castells

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

— Albert Einstein

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

— Constantin Brancusi

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

— David Antin

A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

— Jacob Bronowski

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein