Criminologist

Cesare Lombroso

Medicine

1835–1909

"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."

"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."

🇺🇸Gary Becker

Economics

1930–2014

"revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers."

Cesare Beccaria

Philosophy

Romanticism in Italy

1738–1794

"Seems so absurd to me that the laws, that are the expression of the public will, that hate and punish the murder, make one themselves, and, to dissuade citizens from the murder, order a public murder."

"A comparative social science requires a generalized system of concepts which will enable the scientific observer to compare and contrast large bodies of concretely different social phenomena in consistent terms."

Adolphe Quetelet

Science

1796–1874

"I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence."

🇨🇭Johann Kaspar Lavater

Literature

1741–1801

"If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic."

"Jock Young Keith Hayward and Roger Matthews offer their personal tribute"