On a popular level, you are correct. The problem is that that is still completely nonsensical. In the first place, knowledge isn't supposed to "work" - it simply is. To say that the "scientific" perspective is always correct just because science has resulted in the production of advanced technology is logically incoherent and completely arbitrary. The former does not follow from the latter at all, not even a bit. Initial proponents of the empirical method had far humbler goals and understood their scientific pursuits as merely one way of knowing things, with rather limited applications at that.