The Science-Art Centre

It is extremely important for the need to upgrade Australian scientific world views. In the letter below Dr Brian O'Leary mentions Robert Pope's editorial of Scientific Australian, Aug 1980, Vol. 4, No. 7 and in particular, Robert Pope's prediction published in a cancer research article of the University of Sydney Gazette, Vol. 5 No. 18 of December 1986. Eminent Australian scientists attempted to have this article removed as it was considered a disgrace to the good name of the University of Sydney. This uproar on campus was a front page story in the Sydney Morning Herald during Robert Pope's Artist-in-residency to work alongside cancer researchers.

This attack upon Robert Pope's research illustrates the inadequacy of the prevailing scientific world view. Not only was Pope correct in predicting the global importance of the work of his Science-Art Research Centre of Australia but the discovery he was writing about was later reprinted by the largest research institute in the world, IEEE in Washington, as a major optical mathematics discovery from 20th Century Literature. It was acclaimed alongside such names as Louis Pasteur and Francis Crick.