Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity

Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Yeah, I said the universe. Call it Fate or The Force or whatever you want. Everything is everything. It's all part of one big system. I like to think of it as the universe.

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.