Andrei Linde on Anthropic principle

“Many scientists are still ashamed of using the anthropic principle. Just as the friends of Harry Potter were afraid of using the name 'Voldemort', the opponents of the anthropic principle often say that they do not want to use the 'A' in their research.”

“The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the world. According to its most popular version, our world may consist of infinitely many exponentially large parts, exhibiting different sets of low-energy laws of physics. Since these parts are extremely large, the interior of each of them behaves as if it were a separate universe, practically unaffected by the rest of the world. This picture, combined with the theory of eternal inflation and anthropic considerations, may help to solve many difficult problems of modern physics, including the cosmological constant problem.”