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But just three days later, on a day they called Red Monday, the media and the politicians told us, and we believed, that Sputnik was proof that our enemy had beaten us in science and technology, and that they could now attack us with hydrogen bombs, using their Sputnik rocket as an IBM missile.
Or the Gallup Poll that showed that seven in 10 Americans believed that a nuclear war would happen, and that at least 50 percent of our population was going to be killed.
He believed that the sun was at the center of the universe.
And it's even believed to have been used in building the Egyptian pyramids.
Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults really believed that fame and wealth and high achievement were what they needed to go after to have a good life.
Rumors that confirm people's biases are now believed and spread among millions of people.
The Potiidaeans believed they had been saved by the wrath of Poseidon.
Alan Turing believed that if a computer was able to have a to have a text-based conversation with a human, with such proficiency such that the human couldn't tell whether they are talking to a computer or a human, then the computer can be said to have intelligence.
It's widely believed that the evolution of desiccation-tolerant seeds allowed the colonization and the radiation of flowering plants, or angiosperms, onto land.
They believed it was a dark fluid inside the body.
Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
The Romantic poets of the early 19th century believed melancholy allows us to more deeply understand other profound emotions, like beauty and joy.
The Pythagoreans of 5th Century Greece believed numbers were both living entities and universal principles.
Euclid, the father of geometry, believed nature itself was the physical manifestation of mathematical laws.
Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game rules.
That's what Nozick believed he was demonstrating through his Experience Machine thought experiment.
Freud believed that by analyzing those remembered elements, the unconscious content would be revealed to our conscious mind, and psychological issues stemming from its repression could be addressed and resolved.
Love is the longing to find a soulmate who'll make us feel whole again, or, at least, that's what Plato believed a drunken comedian would say at a party.
Since patients wouldn't know whether they'd received the real thing or a dud, the results wouldn't be biased, researchers believed.
Unfortunately, speakers can also manipulate people with false information that the audience thinks is true, such as the debunked but still widely believed claim that vaccines cause autism.
He also believed that a woman's womb was a live animal that could wander around in her body and cause illness.
I read and reflected and questioned and doubted and, ultimately, believed.
We worked hard, and at the time, I believed that I was doing my best.
At a 10-year memorial for the genocide, he reflected, "I believed at the time I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."
They believed that cacao was a heavenly food gifted to humans by a feathered serpent god, known to the Maya as Kukulkan and to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.
And I've always believed that turning fear into fun is the gift of creativity.
The Romans believed that if the flame goes out, the city's in danger.
I looked at the elder believers whose savior had not come, who were too proud to show any signs of disappointment, who had believed too much and for too long to start doubting now.
I had believed.
I just believed a new thing: that it was possible not to believe.
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