Sentence examples for believed light from inspiring English sources

Shadows provided privacy in cramped quarters, but darkness threatened public safety (or so thought some; others believed light aided robbers and footpads).

As an example, he cites 19th century physicists who believed light needed some kind of medium, called ether, to spread through the universe.

Because he believed light particles are in different states of being at the same time, Schrödinger concluded it was possible for the cat to be both alive and dead in the box simultaneously.

Perhaps Hobbes thought of these motions as vibrations that could die away gradually: at any rate, he seems to have believed light to be a form of vibration (Human Nature, chap. 2, in Calkins, 1963), so it would make sense for it to induce vibratory motion in the brain.

Philip Morris USA, ordered to pay $10.1 billion for misleading Illinois smokers into believing light cigarettes are less harmful than regular ones, appealed the verdict yesterday to the Illinois Supreme Court.

"I believe light as a medium should be free, it should not constricted or confined," he writes on his site.

It's intriguing stuff if you believe light and dark have values that are diametrically opposed and in need of fusion, or that a similar dichotomy is conceptually valid.

Singaporeans believe "light-touch repression" helps keep them safe from foreign and domestic threats.

But the Trust says this technique is "untested" and points out that some bat experts believe lights will limit the animals' movement.

Epicurus (c. 300 bce) believed that light is emitted by sources other than the eye and that vision is produced when light reflects off objects and enters the eye.

Descartes believed that light rays impressed subtle particles into the eyes.