“…Perhaps in his earlier discussions with Landau, Teller did not take into account the possibility that the quadratic terms might also cause distortion and Landau might have thought of this possibility but did not elaborate on it [11]. It is also possible that Landau made a mistake as the story implies-but, again, as Teller himself told us, ''it bothered me that he was usually not wrong, so maybe he was always right with the exception of linear molecules [8,9].''…”