Sentences with phrase «wonderful hairsplitting»

As before the great Flood — when the subdivisions of nature, two by two, marched up the ramp beneath Noah's discriminating gaze — this one goes with that but never with this, the wonderful hairsplitting order of life, of which there was no more wonderful example than the biochemical rule pairing A with T but never with C or G, and the complementary rule matching G with C but never with T or A.