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Full Idea
Exact law obviously never can produce heterogeneity out of homogeneity; and arbitrary heterogeneity is the feature of the universe the most manifest and characteristic.
Clarification
'heterogeneity' is stuff being different, 'homogeneity' is it all being the same
Gist of Idea
The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Architecture of Theories [1891], p.319)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.319
A Reaction
This is the view of laws of nature now associated with Nancy Cartwright, but presumably you can explain the apparent chaos in terms of the intersection of vast numbers of 'laws'. Or, better, there aren't any laws.