Thought in sentence

15627 examples of Thought in a sentence

And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.

He thought he had designed something that would reduce the toll of suffering in war.

We thought we'd just send it to people and see how the molecule behaves.

I didn't want to be one of the almost 50 percent of college graduates leaving the state at the time, and I thought I might use my fancy college education at home for something positive.

I thought buying a house might indelibly tie me to the city while acting as a physical protest to these walls and freeways.

I thought, maybe there's some earthly basis for moral decisions.

In other words, I thought I could design an experiment to see if oxytocin made people moral.

And we were all very flattered to see that image become a symbol of accomplishing something that people had thought was impossible really the world over.

Now I happen to know my children don't lie, so I thought, as a neuroscientist, it was important how I could explain how they were telling inconsistent truths.

I thought it was a fabulous idea, for about one day or two, and I've never thought about it since.

I found out that it was a much more severe problem than I thought.

If we went to another planet and we thought there might be life there, how could we even recognize it as life?

Let me leave you with a final thought.

The lower-level employees thought it was very funny.

I thought, okay, I will go out.

Now, if everything has gone relatively well in your life so far, you probably haven't had that thought before.

I want to leave you with this final thought.

But scientists have for a long time thought this just was never going to be possible.

Just as a simple example, in 1987, we thought this guy was kind of crazy.

I was tired of caring about what other people thought and I just wanted to hurry up, go through my classes, whatever school I was going to be at next, and graduate.

They thought I was a little idealistic, but I mean, we were trying to think big.

You know, for me, what kept me pushing on through the rescue was the thought of those child soldiers.

I cared too much in high school about what people thought about me.

Who would have thought that a mass retailer could make money by going green?

Who would have thought that a database entrepreneur could transform California with legislation?

Who would have thought that the ethanol biofuel miracle would come from a developing country in South America?

And who would have thought that scientists trying to cure malaria could come up with breakthroughs in biofuels?

And who would have thought that all that is not enough?

I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living.

I thought the worst was over until weeks later when I saw my new legs for the first time.

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