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It's really not about being "right." Not in science anyway. It's more about predictabilty. I may not know how the forces work that keep atoms away from each other, but I can reliably predict that if I knock my knuckles on this desk, it's going to make a knocking sound rather than passing right through. [Sure enough, I just tried it and my prediction was right.]
I'm of the Socratic school of thought; I believe that we can't "know" anything. But we don't have to know. Predictability is just as useful most of the time.
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"If I cannot smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go!"
- Mark Twain
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