It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.
Source: The Inner Galaxy, in The Star Thrower, 1949.
-- Loren Eiseley, (Sep 3 1907-1977), US anthropologist, educator, author; He wrote about anthropology for the lay person in eloquent, poetic style; wrote The Star Thrower, 1949 and The Unexpected Universe, 1969.