There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
In plain words
Look at a caterpillar and nothing warns you about the butterfly.
Where these words come from
- 60% sureLots of sources credit Buckminster Fuller with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Fuller made close 1970-74 statements (Planetary Planning, 1970); exact wording first published in Helen Hayes' 1984 book per Quote Investigator
