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Yeah, just be tall, good looking, confident, and comfortable conversing in contrived situations like bar/cafe meetings with strangers.

Wonder why guys can't figure that out?

That's actually a common problem, for Jewish people or other people in inward-focused culture X

X person meets a non-X, they get along, and then X's parents turn the screws, ruining the relationship.

"That would bring an enormous sense of fulfillment, quite apart from the Nobel Prize"

The part you are objecting to was definitely not part of the quote, it was added/paraphrased by the author, for the audience's sake.

From the wording, it seems clear that the author said something like "You could win a Nobel prize for something like that", and the professor retorted with "enormous fulfillment"