Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson, ch. 2, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.