Science history haiku

A disclaimer

These haiku are forced.
But everything is forces,
there is no free will.

On Max Planck

Suffering upright,
revolution unasked for,
walk a middle plank.

To the theorists,
blessed are the peacemakers
and the go-betweens.

Planck, to Einstein

A splendid fellow,
careful incrementalist,
imperialist.

On writing about Peter Galison

In which the author
finds himself critical of
an opalescence.