Pippin

Etymology: Middle English pepin, from Anglo-French

15th century

1. A crisp tart apple having usually yellow or greenish-yellow skin strongly flushed with red and used especially for cooking.

2. A highly admired or very admirable person or thing.

Augustine on science

"Whenever I hear a brother Christian talk in such a way as to show that he is ignorant of these scientific matters and confuses one thing with another, I listen with patience to his theories and think it no harm to him that he does not know the true facts about material things, provided that he holds no beliefs unworthy of you, O Lord, who is the Creator of them all."

Confessions, V.5

Augustine, you make me wonder.