Alan Lightman's quote on the Multiverse

I was reading a post over on Brain Pickings about Alan Lightman's "The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew". There was a powerful quote by Lightman included at the end:

If the multiverse idea is correct, then the historic mission of physics to explain all the properties of our universe in terms of fundamental principles — to explain why the properties of our universe must necessarily be what they are — is futile, a beautiful philosophical dream that simply isn’t true. Our universe is what it is simply because we are here. The situation can be likened to that of a group of intelligent fish who one day begin wondering why their world is completely filled with water. Many of the fish, the theorists, hope to prove that the cosmos necessarily has to be filled with water. For years, they put their minds to the task but can never quite seem to prove their assertion. Then a wizened group of fish postulates that maybe they are fooling themselves. Maybe, they suggest, there are many other worlds, some of them completely dry, some wet, and everything in between.

Lightman is esoteric. I don't mean to be pretentious. I have read a lot on this and love the topic.. It seems to all come back to the same idea: The universe is here because WE are here. Without someone to look at it, to ponder its mysteries, it doesn't exist. By observing, we are creating, and the deeper we look, the more there is.