California Science Center

How is it that I never had heard about the California Science Center?  All the years we have come here visiting, and I always go to The Getty Center, or the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  And not the Science Center?  What is WRONG with me!  So today we came here for two specific exhibits that Liz and Amy had heard about, and an IMAX film.  What a day.  What great exhibits.  More on them tomorrow.  The architecture here is pretty amazing as well.  This is the giant atrium that you pass through to get to two parts of the museum.  There are these gold balls hanging under an occulus with a magenta filter over it - there are patches of  magenta light all over the floor of the atrium, which changes with time throughout the day.  There is a raised stone panel under the atrium with some amazing quotes carved into the stone.  Here is a favorite:  "What is life?  Is it the flash of a firefly in the night.  Is it the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” -- Crowfoot, 1930