There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Fuller's real point isn't about metamorphosis—it's about the radical limits of observation. We assume that careful enough study of *present conditions* will reveal *future possibilities*, but he's suggesting something harder to swallow: that transformation sometimes requires a leap of faith precisely because the evidence doesn't yet exist. When Steve Jobs dropped out of college, no curriculum audit could have predicted the iPhone; the future was genuinely invisible in the data available to him then. The discomfort of this truth is what makes it worth holding onto—it asks us to make decisions and commitments despite the absence of proof, not because we're reckless, but because some futures simply cannot be extrapolated from what we already know.
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason...”
Marcus Aurelius“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. I...”
Viktor Frankl“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca