Science and Technology
- Language Independent Datatypes (now General Purpose Datatypes), in computer science
- Library Interchange Definition, file format in the Open Dylan programming language
- Light-Weight Identity, a protocol for claiming a digital identity on the Internet
- Lithium deuteride, a chemical used as deuterium-dense fuel in thermonuclear weapons
- Local light injection and detection, in fiber optics, a method to determine fiber splice losses, especially in polarisation-maintaining fiber
- League for Industrial Democracy, political party
- Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats), Polish political party
- The ICAO code for Alidaunia Servizio Helibus, an aviation company
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“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think of ... the unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)