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Scholarship for the sake of Truth

Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington, two scientists of different nationalities, worked separately but for the sake of truth amidst struggle for claiming the superiority among the nations in the first World War. Two nations, Britain and Germany, were treating each-other like sworn enemies, fighting war without having any cause whatsoever to further the interest of humanity, and in that mad struggle, most of the scientists of both the nations were collaborating in developing the weapons of mass destruction as well as genocide. In that very critical condition, duo worked out diligently and proved sir Isaac Newton's theory of Gravity wrong. Einstein's General theory of relativity was theoretically a masterpiece, though logically correct and imaginatively wonderful, but without proof, no one was ready to accept it, especially, when science was also being visualized as per the national boundaries. In such a testing time, Arthur Eddington, from Cambridge University, went to Africa to take the photographs of stars at the moment of solar eclipse, to prove or disprove Einstein's general theory of relativity. From that very day, Newtonian theory of gravity was displaced by Einstein's general theory of relativity until quantum physics has shown scepticism about that theory as well. 


What does this story signify? For the sake of truth scholars must not limit their imagination for money, power, or privilege or to claim superiority over anyone on the basis of any identity. Truth is one and it is applicable to everyone irrespective of all the limitations one has as a member of any group, sect, tribe, or nationality. For the sake of truth, one must investigate and examine the existing hypotheses, and in doing so, one must be aware of his or her prejudices, which may affect in reaching upon a truthful conclusion, at least, for the moment until a better theory displaces it in future.

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