I believe you can have the physiological signs of love at first sight, but actual heartfelt feelings of love can only come after having got to know a person. To say otherwise would be to demean what love truly means.
I think there are different versions of love. Though, when most people think of love at first sight is The Ultimate Love. I think, for some people, that The Ultimate Love may come in the form of a first sight. (People who will fall in love with a person on sight but never interact with that person in any way. So that, in the long run, that love turns into bereft love when there has been no mutual love in the first place which feels like it defeats the definition of The Ultimate Love -- for people have bereft Ultimate Loves, right?. ;/ And I feel like I talked myself into a circle here...)
I think I get what you're saying. And in describing/explaining love the main problem I think is in the English language. The word love is used to explain so many different types of love that it's hard to explain oneself. For instance, obsessive love can happen at first sight and never come to anything because maybe you don't ever get to really know them - but you'll always feel something - doesn't have a name, we just have to try and describe it using adverbs which then make it sound less than just 'love' but in fact it's just different. And I too am talking myself around in circles...
The English language (or any language) will always be too limited when it comes to describing emotions. It will always fall short, because you can't describe something so utterly ineffable. But we don't stop trying, though.
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