Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor? - David Brin

Some molecules were stable. . . . These became letters in a new alphabet.
They, too, reacted to form still larger clusters, a few of which survived and accrued. . . . the first genetic words.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.
I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.” “Why, as men do aland — the great ones eat up the little ones.” — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE King Richard the Second