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.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

There is more chance than choice in our decisions.

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.