Translation for "man hätte gedacht" to english

Man hätte gedacht

• one would have thought

Translation examples

one would have thought

Man hätte gedacht, dass eine von den logischsten und intelligentesten aller bekannten Wesen gelenkte Polis ein Ort wäre, dessen Schattenwelten namens Mythen und Legenden vom grellen kalten Licht der Vernunft verbannt worden wären.
One would have thought that a Polity controlled by the most logical and intelligent entities known would be a place in which those shadows called myth and legend were dispelled by the harsh cold light of reason. Not a bit of it.