The phrase "a possible science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a field of study or discipline that may be considered scientific but is not yet fully established or recognized as such.
Example: "While many view astrology as a possible science, it lacks the empirical evidence required to be classified as a legitimate scientific discipline."
Alternatives: "a potential science" or "a plausible science".
On the counter was Kyle's Traffic Log, which served the dual purpose of (1) buttressing Dad's argument that Father Dmitri should build a soundproof retaining wall and (2) constituting a data set for a possible Science Fair project for him, Kyle, entitled, by Dad, "Correlation of Church Parking Lot Volume vs. Day of Week, with Ancillary Investigation of Sunday Volume Throughout Year".
Visiting the intersection of all three zones is now being considered as a possible science destination once the rover starts some serious driving in September.
Understood as an ontological enquiry or as the study of pure being, metaphysics is not a possible science because it lacks a subject matter of its own.
At what point did you begin to see this as a possible Science paper (as opposed to one for a lower profile journal)?
This paper discusses theoretical robot analysis, an overall concept, possible science, enabling technologies, and how to perform scientific investigations.
Wright saw a wide range of possible science fiction storylines in the original Stargate (1994) film that could take place in the present day.
Three years ago, the massively destructive Hurricane Katrina suggested as much, and two studies pegged global warming as a possible culprit (Science, 16 September 2005, p. 1807).
"EPA continues to strengthen the Integrated Risk Information System Program (IRIS), as part of an effort to ensure that the best possible science is used to protect human health and the environment.
The physicist, Leonard Reiffel, 72, said yesterday that he was in charge of a highly classified study of the blast's visibility, its possible science benefits and its effects on the moon's face.
To start with, it must be noted that long before the verification principle proper entered Circle's discourse in the late 1920s, the thought expressed by Mach's dictum that "where neither confirmation nor refutation is possible, science is not concerned" (1883 [1960, 587]) was accepted as a basic precept of critical reflection about science.
A couple of people who have criticized what I was doing suggested that discussing possible science integrity problems in public is potentially damaging in the long term, because if the public gets the idea that a major portion of the science literature is just wrong, then maybe they will refuse to fund science.
