Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two ...

Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

Ian Stewart

Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (ed. Penguin UK, 1997) - ISBN: 9780141928074