In learning about how light exhibits wave like properties and particle like properties, the author discusses how light is much more complicated than it may seem, and often acts contradictory to the way it is expected to. He says, "We have to accept nature as it is rather than hoping that nature will conform to our expectations."

What to take from this? They way men and women are is irrelevant to how you think they should be. You should not base your actions on how people "should" behave.